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finally saw documentary. very grateful this exists. all the vintage 70s/80s 8 & 16mm footage in Conny's studio are invaluable.
reminds me of Stan Warnow's film about his father, Raymond Scott - Deconstructing Dad; both pointedly frame the entire film as a means to come to terms with largely absent fathers by trying to understand what they spent their lives actually doing. I frequently think about the ending of Warnow's film.
the focus is kept mostly to anecdotes from interviews. this keeps things personal; not too many talking heads filling in expository. however, as Möbi had passed before filming began, this leaves a pretty big hole in coverage of the music Plank released himself. as in, Lillental & the Möbi & Plank records are not mentioned at all -- no 'Zero Set' -- and none of the weirder 80's blurring between producing and composing comes up. the film handles that decade by interviewing the bigger stars he produced, where he often took a lighter touch, so the musical examples from the 80's don't quite make the case they could. but you do get Arno Steffan interviewed about the fantastic 1986 tour with Möbi. you do get Rita Mitsouko, totally wonderful. and the Whodini interview, to hear legends like those two humbly talking about how they got miraculously beamed over to make music out in kosmiche country, them reminding Stephan about them playing with him when he was a kid, the whole thing becomes more than a film at moments like that
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 23:42 (four years ago) link
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Heads up for the Dutch and Belgian massive on here (and Britishes w/ satellite telly). ARD is showing Conny Plank – Mein Vater der Klangvisionär (German title of the documentary mentioned above) tomorrow at 23.45 CET. I've not seen it yet so I'm very much looking forward to it.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 07:33 (three years ago) link
the germans are (or are at least were) daft for Irish folk music as far as I can tell, lots of stuff filmed for german telly if you go on an Irish folk youtube binge
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 June 2020 00:31 (three years ago) link
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